Flags of our fathers by James Bradley(
Book
)68
editions published
between
1998
and
2012
in
4
languages
and held by
6,797 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The story of "the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima."

Mark Twain : a life by Ron Powers(
Book
)22
editions published
between
2005
and
2007
in
English
and held by
2,818 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Mark Twain's works are a living national treasury, yet somehow, beneath the vast river of literature that he left behind,
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the man who became Mark Twain, has receded from view, leaving us with only faint and often trivialized
remnants of his towering personality. Here, author Powers recreates the 19th century's vital landscapes and tumultuous events
while restoring the human being at their center. Clemens left his frontier boyhood in Missouri for a life on the Mississippi
during the golden age of steamboats. He skirted the Civil War before taking off for an uproarious newspaper career in Wild
West Nevada. He took the East Coast by storm, witnessing the extremes of wealth and poverty of New York City and the Gilded
Age (which he named). He traveled to Europe on the first American pleasure cruise and revitalized travel writing. He wooed
and won his lifelong devoted wife, yet quietly pined for the girl who was his first crush and whom he would re-encounter decades
later. He became the toast of Europe and a celebrity who toured the globe. The man who emerges in Powers's brilliant telling
is both the magnetic, acerbic, and hilarious Mark Twain of myth and a devoted friend, husband, and father; a whirlwind of
optimism and restless energy; and above all, a wide-eared and wide-eyed observer who absorbed every sight and sound, and poured
it into his characters, plots, jokes, businesses, and life. Mark Twain left us our greatest voice. Sam Clemens left us one
of our most full and American of lives.--From publisher description

Mark Twain by Geoffrey C Ward(
Book
)1
edition published
in
2001
in
English
and held by
2,188 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Integrating material from his literary works, diaries, and letters, this illustrated portrait of one of America's greatest
writers follows Twain from his childhood, through his travels throughout the world, to his career as a journalist and author

Dangerous water : a biography of the boy who became Mark Twain by Ron Powers(
Book
)10
editions published
between
1998
and
2001
in
English
and held by
1,375 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Describes how the author's personality and literary works were shaped by a Hannibal, Missouri childhood that included violence,
the culture of slavery, and fierce religion

Flags of our fathers by James Bradley(
Recording
)27
editions published
between
2000
and
2011
in
English
and held by
1,372 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured
the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story
behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American
Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima--and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches
strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they
raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flag raisers has written a powerful account of six very different young men who came
together in a moment that will live forever. To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after
his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos

Last flag down : the epic journey of the last Confederate warship by John Baldwin(
Book
)10
editions published
in
2007
in
English
and held by
1,319 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Describes the Civil War role of the Confederate warship Shenandoah, which prowled international waters destroying dozens of
Union ships, until, in August 1865, the crew discovered that the war had been over for months and they were being hunted as
pirates

The newscasters by Ron Powers(
Book
)15
editions published
between
1977
and
1982
in
English and Japanese
and held by
1,081 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic traces the decline and fall of American newscasting, revealing its inner workings
through analyses of or interviews with such notables as Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters, Dan Rather, and Geraldo Rivera

Tom and Huck don't live here anymore : childhood and murder in the heart of America by Ron Powers(
Book
)4
editions published
between
2001
and
2013
in
English
and held by
647 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Something had gone terribly wrong in Hannibal, Missouri. Within the space of six weeks, two killings - a manslaughter and
then a murder - had taken place in the town that Mark Twain consecrated in his timeless classics about boyhood, the town that
so proudly called itself "America's Home Town." Both were committed by adolescents." "Ron Powers felt compelled to revisit
Hannibal. He had grown up there, and news of the crimes violated his faith in the town as an American sanctuary. The old "world
headquarters of childhood" was not immune to the new national trend of violence by children. His hope was to find some explanation,
some solace, some way of squaring these horrific tragedies with what he remembered about "his" Hannibal." "Tom and Huck Don't
Live Here Anymore illuminates the tortured paradox of childhood in present-day America: romanticized in public rhetoric but
brutalized by countless acts of indifference, ignorance, and aggression. While no one can fully explain what makes children
kill, Powers places the unthinkable squarely at the heart of America's story."--Jacket

The beast, the eunuch, and the glass-eyed child : television in the '80s by Ron Powers(
Book
)8
editions published
in
1990
in
English
and held by
647 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This volume contains twenty critical essays of television during the 1980s. The author, a veteran media critic, offers his
views on topics such as television consumption and other trends. He argues that children's shows are calculated to create
future consumers; the spreading influence of USA Today-type news broadcasts that do not cover news, and only consist of headlines;
and the unending procession of talk-show celebrities who have no claim to fame other than their celebrity. The author details
how television altered itself during this decade details how this was accomplished, how the young mastermind of MTV changed
the face of television, how television altered its own view of itself, how the audience became part of television in an interactive
way, how television became the audience that became the transfer agent to a larger audience (reality programming), how television
became an influential politician to be reckoned with

True compass by Edward M Kennedy(
Recording
)1
edition published
in
2009
in
English
and held by
574 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Edward M. ("Ted") Kennedy, was first elected as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts in 1962, after playing a key role in his
brother John's Presidential campaign." In 2004 he began interviews at the Miller Center of the Univ. of Virginia for an oral
history project about his life. Since then he has drawn from his fifty years of contemporaneous notes from personal diaries
and worked closely on this book with ... Ron Powers." In his revealing autobiography, Kennedy discusses his distinguished
career, his family and personal relationships, and the tragedies that have befallen his family over the many years

True compass : a memoir by Edward M Kennedy(
Book
)2
editions published
in
2009
in
English
and held by
572 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Edward M. ("Ted") Kennedy was first elected as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts in 1962, after playing a key role in his
brother John's Presidential campaign. "In 2004 he began interviews at the Miller Center of the Univ. of Virginia for an oral
history project about his life. Since then he has drawn from his fifty years of contemporaneous notes from personal diaries
and worked closely on this book with ... Ron Powers."--Dust jacket. In his revealing autobiography, Kennedy discusses his
distinguished career, his family and personal relationships, and the tragedies that have befallen his family over the many
years

Mark Twain : a life by Ron Powers(
Recording
)10
editions published
between
2005
and
2011
in
English
and held by
349 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Presents a biography of Mark Twain that embodies the totality of the man in his many moods and phases of life as youth, son
and brother, writer, friend, husband, and celebrity

Face value by Ron Powers(
Book
)11
editions published
between
1979
and
1981
in
3
languages
and held by
343 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

The cruel radiance : notes of a prosewriter in a visual age by Ron Powers(
Book
)4
editions published
in
1994
in
English
and held by
260 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
For Powers, writing and culture are inextricably intertwined; good storytelling is as central to the American temperament
as jazz or baseball because it helps perpetuate our unique character: "In telling the people of a certain place the elemental
tales about themselves and their place, the teller creates the common consciousness necessary for community. Likewise, the
common consciousness of a community at once enhances the need for a teller."

Flags of our fathers by Clint Eastwood(
Visual
)43
editions published
between
2006
and
2013
in
5
languages
and held by
204 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
On the front line, there's no time for fear. For 70,000 marines the battle for Iwo Jima was more than the turning point of
World War II, it was the defining moment in their lives